How ironic.

When we interviewed at YC, we were told that "selling products online is depressingly orthogonal to good design".

We gave a competitor's site (http://bit.ly/15mzF) as an example to compare with our site (http://stylous.com/).

We were told that "they probably understand things about user behavior that you guys don't"

I guess "High Production Values" (http://bit.ly/oC5Y8) and "Make Your Site Easy" (http://bit.ly/YYfr) don't apply anymore.

(To be fair, there were other reasons we weren't accepted.)

Why post the archive.org version when http://store.yahoo.com/secrets.html is still up?

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320852

But I'm glad it's got some attention this time.

I would really appreciate if the title gets changed to put [2001]...

for example: CDNOW